Collar button



J. ONEAL. COLLAR-BUTTON. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26,192}.

Patented; June 313, 1922.

INVENTOR. JOHN OWE/7L.

" AORYS n stares JOHN ONEAL, OF TEERE I-IAUTE, INDIANA.

COLLAR BUTTON.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 13, 1922.

Application filed February 28, 1921. Serial No. 447,987.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JoHN GNEAL, a citi- Zenof the United States, and aresident of Terie Haute, county of Vigo, and State of Indiana, haveinvented a certain new and useful Collar Button; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,reference bein had to the accompanying drawings, in w ich like numeralsrefer to like parts.

This invention relates to a collar button, and the chief object thereofis to provide a button which will detachably secure a collar to agarment in an improved manner, and which will retain said collar in thegarment supported position and prevent the accidental detachment of thesame.

The chief feature of the invention consists in the particularconstruction of the collar button.

The full nature of the invention will be understood from theaccompanying drawings and the following description and claim.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of a collar buttonshowing the same applied to a garment. Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofthe improved collar button. Fig. 3 is a central sectional view of thecollar button in securing relation with a garment and a collar.

In the drawings 10 indicates the outer fold and 11 the inner fold of aneck band of a garment, and 12 indicates a button hole in the outer foldof said neck band. The neck band is adapted to be associated with acollar 13 provided with a similar button hole 1% in the base thereof,which button hole is adapted to register with the button hole 12 whensaid collar is to be secured and is secured to the garment by the neckband.

The collar button by which the collar is secured to a garment in theusual manner comprises a base portion 15 which is arouate in form andwhich is continued or extended to form a pair of oppositely extendingarcuate wing plates 16 integral with the body portion 15. Preferablyintegral with the body portion 15 are a plurality of tongue portions,three being herein shown, the two outside tongue portions beingdesignated by the numeral 17 and the intermediate or middle tongueportion being designated by the numeral 18. The tongue portions 17 aresimilar, so a description of one will suiiice for both. The tongue portion 17 extends outwardly from the arcuate base 15 and then extendsdownwardly therefrom, the lower free end being bent outwardly at 19, asshown clearly in Figs.

2 and 3. The intermediate or middle tongue portion 18 extends outwardlyfrom the base 15 and provides an intermediate portion 20 which spacesthe tongue portion 18 which also depends from said base portion at adistance from the tongues 17. The lower free end 21 of the tongueportion 18 is bent inwardly as shown. Thus, the lower free ends 19 and21 cooperate together as shown clearly in Fig. 3 to form a clampingconnection. It is to be understood that the outwardly turned free end 21of the middle tongue 18 is readily receivable by the button hole 1 1 ofthe collar 18; while the in wardly extending free ends 19 of the outertongues 17 provide that said tongues 17 do not pass through the buttonhole 14: but continue in their downward movement between the collar baseand the garment when the collar is being applied to the garment. Thus,the tongues 17 are interposed between the collar and the neck band ofthe garment; while the tongue 18 extends through the button hole of thecollar and secures said collar to the neck band.

The wings 16 provide an enlargement or stop means which prevents thenon-passage of the base portion 15 through the neck band, button hole 12while the cooperating tongues 17 and 18 secure the collar 13 to the neckband and prevent the accidental detachment of the same, the free ends ofsaid tongues cooperating to form a clamping engagement for retainingsaid collar in connection with the collar button. Thus, the collar isadapted to be detachably secured to a garment by the aforesaid collarbutton in an improved manner, which prevents the accidentaldetachability of the collar therefrom.

The invention claimed is:

A collar button for attaching a collar to a garment, each having abutton hole therein adapted to register, including a base portionnon-passable through the garment button hole, and an attaching portionpassable therethrough comprising three tongues adapted to lie parallelto said collar in two groups, the two outer tongues lying upon endsextending in opposite directions from the ends of the tongues of theother group for clamping engagement.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto atfixed my signature.

JOHN ONEAL.

